If you manicure your hands or nails, you care for them by softening your skin and cutting and polishing your nails. He was surprised to see how carefully she had manicured her broad hands. Manicure is also a noun. I have a manicure occasionally. a treatment for the hands that includes cutting and polishing the nails pedicure (manus + cura )
To care for (the hands and nails); to care for the hands and nails of; to do manicure work